Allison deFreese

Allison is president of the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters (OSTI) and an NEA Literature Translation Fellow. Her translations include María Negroni’s Elegy for Joseph Cornell (Dalkey Archive); astronaut José Moreno Hernández’s Soaring to New Heights (Renuevo), and Verónica González Arredondo’s Green Fires of the Spirits (Libros BUAP, Mexico). Allison ​has published two books of verse (The Night with James Dean and Other Prose Poems and Nurdles and Other Poems) and several translations. Her work appears in Hunger Mountain, The Comstock Review, and River Heron Review.